A Scottish report
looks at what schools can do and are already doing, to promote
personal safety and child protection. It provides suggestions
about how themes and resources can be used in the curriculum.
It also considers the skills, values and understanding which
a personal safety and protection programme aim to develop
in the child, for example assertiveness, self-knowledge
and self-esteem. If this programme is to work, a school
must have a positive school ethos (roughly speaking a positive
atmosphere and character). In turn, a successful programme
would contribute to this ethos. It is not surprising to
find that one of the important areas covered in a personal
safety and protection programme is bullying. .........................................

Article details

A Mellor, K Phillips,
S Walker and P Munn (1998) 'Promoting Personal Safety and
Child Protection in the Curriculum', The University of Edinburgh,
Moray House Publications.

A limited number of
copies are available from The Anti-Bullying Network at The
University of Edinburgh. .........................................

Author details

At
the time of the study, Andrew Mellor was a practising teacher
who had received funding from the Scottish Education Department
to carry out this project. He has been actively involved
in anti-bullying work in Scotland for almost 15 years, speaking
at conferences, writing for academic and non-academic audiences
and running in-service courses for teachers. He is now manager
of the Anti-Bullying Network, which is funded by the Scottish
Executive and based at The University of Edinburgh..........................................